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George SWITZLER
(Abt 1759 – )
Charity DENIG
(Abt 1764 – )
John SWITZLER
(1776 –1856)

 

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Spouses & Children

1. Elizabeth Cary LEE

2. Mariah ROBINSON

John SWITZLER 2 3
  • Born: 29 September 1776, Berlin, Germany 4
  • Marriage (1): Elizabeth Cary LEE on 22 November 1810 in Stuart, Patrick County, Virginia, USA 1 2
  • Marriage (2): Mariah ROBINSON on 12 March 1827 2
  • Died: 1856, Oregon, USA at age 80
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bullet  General Notes

Emigrated to the US with his parents in 1788.
Originated from Switzlerland to Germany to Virginia and from there to Missouri and then on to Oregon.
In Oregon they operated The Switzler Ferry 1846 the first ferry operated on the Columbia River.
Listed on Oregon Donation Land Claims: Cert #137, 540.36 Acres.

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bullet  Recorded Events in His Life

  • He resided at Virginia, then Oregon.
  • Fact: Mariah was 2nd wife of John.
  • He served in the military: War of 1812; was a Corporal in Captian Abraham Staples Company of Riflemen. 6th Regiment (Sharp's) Virginia Militia. Served from Sept 10, 1813 to Jan 30, 1814 at $10 a month.
  • He owned Donation Land Claim along the Columbia River, in Multnomah County, Oregon, USA in Multnomah County, Oregon, USA.
  • He owned the Switzler Donation Land-Claims were between the claims of the Wilson family and the Brown family; one of John's sons had a claim next to his.
  • He emigrated to Virginia in 1788 from Germany. 4
  • He has conflicting birth information of 29 September 1789. 5
  • Moved: Crossed the plains in the famous "lost" wagon-train of 1845 (with 2nd wife and 9 children), 1845.
  • Fact: Went to the gold rush in California, in 1848.
  • Fact: Appointed guardian of his grandchildren after daughter Sarah's death, in 1852.
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John married Elizabeth Cary LEE on 22 November 1810 in Stuart, Patrick County, Virginia, USA.1 2 (Elizabeth Cary LEE was born about 1794 in prob Virginia, USA 6 and died about 1826 in Virginia, USA 4.)


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John next married Mariah ROBINSON on 12 March 1827.2 (Mariah ROBINSON was born about 1794 in prob Missouri, USA,6 died on 17 October 1850 in Oregon, USA and was buried in 1850 in Clackamas County, Oregon, USA 4.)


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bullet   Sources   bullet

  1. Ancestry.com, Virginia Marriages, 1740 –1850 [database online] (Dodd, Jordan R, et. al. Early American Marriages: Virginia to 1850. Bountiful, UT: Precision Indexing Publishers, 19xx.).
  2. Kirsty M. Haining.
  3. Gertrude Brown Smith and Beulah M. Springstead, Our Colonial Lines: Powell, Eaton, Rice, Pettengill, Collver, White (c) 1992, p. 95. This is the 3rd edition of a family-published book on genealogy.
  4. Portrait and Biographical Record of Portland and Vicinity Oregon: Containing Original Sketches of many well known Citizens of the Past and Present (Chapman Publishing Company: Chicago, 1903.).
  5. Gertrude Brown Smith and Beulah M. Springstead, Our Colonial Lines: Powell, Eaton, Rice, Pettengill, Collver, White (c) 1992. This is the 3rd edition of a family-published book on genealogy.
  6. Kirsty M. Haining, Estimated date. Estimates are based off of known event dates (birth dates, christening dates, marriage dates, graduation dates, retirement events, death dates, etc.) from the lives of the individual's immediate ancestors or descendants. Women are estimated to be roughly 20 years older than the birth of the first child; men are about 5 years older than their wives; siblings are estimated at 2 years apart.


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